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Ghana by Salar & Huzaifa

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  • Jan 1, 1502

    First slave ship leaves west Africa

    Juan de Córdoba of Seville becomes the first merchant we can identify to send an African slave to the New World. Córdoba, like other merchants, is permitted by the Spanish authorities to send only one slave. Others send two or three.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1502 to

    History of Ghana

  • Jan 1, 1528

    Spanish explorers introduce Chocolate drink from the aztecs to Europe

  • First British trading settlement set up on the Gold coast

  • London's first drinking Chocolate cafe opens

  • Britain starts campaign to stop the slave trade

  • Slavery abolished in Europe

  • The world's first Chocolate bars made in England by J S Fry and Sons

  • British takes control of the south of the Gold coast

  • A Ghanaian brings back cocoa plants from Fernado Po, an island off Africa

  • The first cocoa exported to Britain

  • The railway construction started by the British

  • The railway construction ended

  • A large harbour built at Takoradi

  • Campaign for independence starts

  • The Akosombo dam completed, to provide ghana with hydroelectricity

  • Economy almost collapses due to low cocoa prices and other problems

  • Ghana has to pay back loans of $1.5 billion to other countries

  • Ghana earns $222 million from selling rainforest timber

  • Crisis in Asia and Russia causes world chocolate sales to fall

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